On Track Or Off The Rails

Author : Jenny Rademann
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN 13 : 386395534X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Track Or Off The Rails? written by Jenny Rademann and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2022 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to achieve a transition from a transport system centred on the individual car to one centred on (electrified) rail a new focus in infrastructure planning is needed. The preparation of project proposals for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 on the sub-national level in Germany provides an opportunity to study decision-making processes in ministries and compare their respective results in this respect. Using document analysis, expert interviews, qualitative content analysis as well as QCA, this thesis in political science analyses how decision-making processes within bureaucracies impact the decision output in transport infrastructure planning. It contributes to the discussion on bureaucracy-politics interactions that is relevant beyond the German case. One result is that ministries tend to use complex decision-making processes for topics deemed salient as long as the available capacity permits it. Consequently, in order to conduct legitimacy-enhancing steps – such as public participation – a well-funded bureaucracy is indispensable.

Author : Beppe Severgnini
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592408729
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off the Rails written by Beppe Severgnini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains--and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity. "I've gone around the world in installments. Every trip has been a revelation. I've watched regions, nations, and continents change moods and I've met more people on trains than in forty years of airplane flights. Every train trip has been a spectacle. Trains are stages, cafés, bazaars. The only talk show that will never go off the air..." Beppe Severgnini has spent his life traveling the world, and not just because he's a journalist; he's a passionate, unflagging train buff. Off the Rails recounts some of his favorite trips across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the United States, each journey bringing readers not only to a different place but to a different time, from his honeymoon on the Trans-Siberian Express (in a four-person compartment!), to a winding journey from Russia to Turkey during the last summer of communism, to a recent coast-to-coast trip with his son from Washington, D.C., to Washington State. Off the Rails is the perfect getaway for anyone with a touch of wanderlust, who dreams of escape or just likes to laugh. Filled with memorable characters and perceptive observations, it demonstrates--hilariously--what unites us. With the world in chaos and life in perpetual fast-forward, it's always the right time to hop on board with Beppe Severgnini and meet your charming, hapless, quarrelsome, romantic, shifty, quirky, endearing neighbors.

Author : Beppe Severgnini
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698162110
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off the Rails written by Beppe Severgnini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains--and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity. "I've gone around the world in installments. Every trip has been a revelation. I've watched regions, nations, and continents change moods and I've met more people on trains than in forty years of airplane flights. Every train trip has been a spectacle. Trains are stages, cafés, bazaars. The only talk show that will never go off the air..." Beppe Severgnini has spent his life traveling the world, and not just because he's a journalist; he's a passionate, unflagging train buff. Off the Rails recounts some of his favorite trips across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the United States, each journey bringing readers not only to a different place but to a different time, from his honeymoon on the Trans-Siberian Express (in a four-person compartment!), to a winding journey from Russia to Turkey during the last summer of communism, to a recent coast-to-coast trip with his son from Washington, D.C., to Washington State. Off the Rails is the perfect getaway for anyone with a touch of wanderlust, who dreams of escape or just likes to laugh. Filled with memorable characters and perceptive observations, it demonstrates--hilariously--what unites us. With the world in chaos and life in perpetual fast-forward, it's always the right time to hop on board with Beppe Severgnini and meet your charming, hapless, quarrelsome, romantic, shifty, quirky, endearing neighbors.

Author : Andrew Murray
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859844960
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off the Rails written by Andrew Murray and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002-11-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A damning indictment of the chaos on the British railways.

Author : Richard S. Brown
Publisher : Black Rose Writing
ISBN 13 : 1684336309
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Off The Rails written by Richard S. Brown and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "​An instant noir classic. Highly recommended." –Best Thrillers The year is 1958. Stan Ellis, a young reporter for a small-town Wisconsin newspaper, can't forget the call he got from a woman who claimed a man convicted of causing a train wreck four years before was falsely imprisoned. After a night of sleeplessness, he searches for the woman hoping to latch on to a big story. When he tracks her down, he finds she is the ex-wife of George Cashman, the train engineer who was operating the train that crashed. She identifies the man she believes sabotaged the train, but refuses to go to the authorities herself out of fear for her safety. She begs Stan to go instead and to ask them to open a new investigation. He agrees, not realizing that he is opening up something bigger and more dangerous than he ever anticipated.

Author : Walter Mason Camp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on Track written by Walter Mason Camp and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : charles greaves
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291047891
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Greaves - Off the rails written by charles greaves and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a light-hearted and amusing autobiographical style book, based on the authors experiences and describes his unreadiness for work after leaving school and then his experiences in a railway engineers drawing office in the 1970's.

Author : Chris Hatherly
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408852950
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off The Rails written by Chris Hatherly and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of two twenty-year old Australians who travelled for fourteen months on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia and Mongolia, to Beijing. It is as much a story of perseverance, passion, and belief as it is about the people and remarkable landscapes of Siberia and Mongolia. Tim and Chris are not just fearless adventurers but philosophers on wheels, willing and able to open themselves up to everything from the voice of the Steppes to the Russian villagers and the nomads of the Gobi desert. From this they draw an often funny, moving and inspirational tale of living out a dream. Mixed into this journey is the story of their tumultuous relationship as two opposing wills battle it out in the midst of heat, snow and hunger.

Author : Robert Tabern
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300710683
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outside the Rails: A Rail Route Guide from Chicago to La Plata, MO written by Robert Tabern and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Tabern
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359890199
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outside the Rails: A Rail Route Guide from Chicago to Kansas City written by Robert Tabern and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outside the Rails: A Rail Route Guide from Chicago to Kansas City" is a 334-page route guidebook for passengers traveling Amtrak's Southwest Chief train through Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. Learn interesting facts about the people, place, and history passing by outside the window between Chicago and Kansas City. This book was written by Robert and Kandace Tabern with the Midwest Rail Rangers.